PM for polio eradication
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Monday directed that all available resources should be utilized for the anti-polio campaign on urgent basis so that the disease could be eradicated from the…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Monday directed that all available resources should be utilized for the anti-polio campaign on urgent basis so that the disease could be eradicated from the…
ISLAMABAD: A three-day polio immunization campaign to vaccinate children under the age of five years started on Monday in the federal capital and other cities of the country. According to…
PESHAWAR: Deputy Commissioner and Commandant Malakand Levies Force Rehan Khattak Friday said that more than 138,000 children of under five-year-age would be administered anti-polio drops in the division during the…
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has said that giving anti-polio vaccine to children under five years of age is a must for protecting their health. CM was addressing…
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Jam Kamal Khan Friday said the provincial government was utilizing all available resources to prevent polio virus on emergency basis. In a message issued here…
ISLAMABAD: Parliamentary Secretary for National Health Services, Dr. Nausheen Hamid on Monday said that the government will implement a new strategy and an emergency action plan to prevent and control…
ISLAMABAD: The sub-national polio eradication campaign started on Monday in Balochistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) to vaccinate children under the age of five year. According to an official…
ISLAMABAD: A polio vaccination drive will be carried out in different cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province from August 13 to 16, a private news channel reported with reference to…
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar on Wednesday sought a report from the Health Minister and Health Secretary over death of a child due to polio in Ravi Town…
ISLAMABAD: PM Imran Khan, while talking to Bill Gates (Co-Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,) on telephone today, said that Pakistan was making all efforts to combat the…
ISLAMABAD: Babar Bin Atta, Prime Minister Imran Khan's Focal Person for Polio Eradication has resigned today from his post. Taking to Twitter Babar Bin Atta held: "After a stint of…
ISLAMABAD: Focal Person to Prime Minister Imran Khan on polio eradication Babar Bin Atta Monday has claimed that Pakistan would soon be declared as a polio-free country because of the…
KARACHI: Sewage samples collected from gutters of 11 sampling sites in the metropolis have confirmed prevalence of polio virus in Karachi. The World Health Organization (WHO) had collected samples in…
ISLAMABAD: The nine-day anti-polio drive will commence at one hundred and six Union Councils of Karachi from Monday. Commissioner Karachi Iftikhar Shalwani said, a target of fifteen hundred and twenty…
ISLAMABAD: A total of 550 policemen were performing security duties for polio teams during the anti- polio drive in Islamabad, police source said. He said that Additional SP Hassam Bin…
KARACHI: Commissioner Sukkur, Rafique Ahmed Buriro on Monday has asked the health department to effectively run awareness campaigns to educate parents to administer anti-polio drops to their children during every…
QUETTA: Balochistan health ministry has initiated a three-day polio-free campaign in four districts of the province, an official said today. “Nearly eight hundred thousand children up to five years of age…
PESHAWAR: It has been a year today since the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) reported the last case of polio. According to a statement issued by Fata Secretariat, not a single…
ISLAMABAD: Japanese government, Japan International Cooperation Agency and the United Nations Children’s Fund have signed an agreement to vaccinate 3.3 million children between 4 to 23 months of age in…
QUETTA: A five-day supplementary polio immunization drive commenced today (Monday) in different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. According to Emergency Operations Center Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, more than over one million…
KARACHI: A five-day supplementary polio immunization drive commenced today (Monday) in various parts of the country, according to the health ministry. The Anti-polio campaign will be started in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Federally…
ISLAMABAD: National coordinator of the Emergency Operation Centre Pakistan, Rana Safdar said on Wednesday that the country is moving closer to eradicating polio and Pakistan hopes to be removed from polio-endemic countries…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has strongly condemned the deadly attack on the police party in Karachi’s Orangi Town on Wednesday. According to a statement issued by PM house shortly…
KARACHI: Four-day polio eradication drive will commence in Karachi from Monday. During the campaign,2.2m children up to the age of five years will be administered with polio drops.